Anthroposophy and its Opponents

GA 255b — 27 September 1922, Dornach

Academic and Nationalistic Opponents IX

Correction in the weekly publication “Das Goetheanum”

September 27, 1922

Rejection of Untruths

I have been informed that it is being said in Switzerland that the former President of Württemberg, Mr. Blos, is supposed to claim with certainty that he received me several times. I hereby declare that this is a blatant untruth. I have never visited Mr. Blos, never spoken a word to him, never exchanged any written correspondence with him. I saw him only once from a distance. That was when I attended the lecture given by the then Reich Minister Simons in Stuttgart. At that time, next to me, Councillor of Commerce Molt pointed to a gentleman whom I did not know and said, “That is Blos.” At that time, he had long since ceased to be President of the State. But even then, it came to nothing more than “seeing from a distance”. Whether Mr. Blos himself made the above claim is unknown to me; it is said. And it is linked to his untrue statements, which are not based on anything, and which he had printed in his memoirs. I therefore further declare that I never authorized anyone to talk to Mr. Blos for me or in my name. If someone has done so, it has happened without my knowledge and against my will. I myself only read in the Blos memoirs that someone was supposed to have done this. The things that are being told so often are based on such falsehoods. It is particularly absurd that there is even talk of my wanting to become a minister in Württemberg. I have so far considered it unnecessary to publicly refute the pure fabrications, especially when they are as nonsensical as the one just mentioned. But since people are saying, “Why doesn't the person concerned refute such claims?” I declare, with regard to this too, that it is a blatant untruth. I have never said anything to anyone that could have given rise to such talk. I will not go into other things that are said repeatedly, but which are just as untrue, today. Perhaps that too will happen.

Dornach, September 27, 1922
Rudolf Steiner